Journal Article Measuring Business Cycles Get access Edwin B. Wilson Edwin B. Wilson Office of Naval Research, Boston Branch Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 64, Issue 2, May 1950, Pages 311–318, https://doi.org/10.2307/1882698 Published: 01 May 1950

Wicksteed on the scope and method of political economy, 381. — Early theorizing about the influence of monetary conditions on the activity of trade, 383. — Characteristics of Keynes' thinking, 386. — Law's Money and Trade Considered, 388. — Adam Smith's misinterpretation, 389. — Origins of the Mississippi Scheme, 391. — Difficulty of controlling social developments, 392. — Parallel between Law and Keynes, 393. — Need for further study of monetary theory, 395.

Journal Article Notes on Utility Theory and Demand Equations Get access Edwin B. Wilson Edwin B. Wilson Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 60, Issue 3, May 1946, Pages 453–460, https://doi.org/10.2307/1880681 Published: 01 May 1946

Journal Article Consumption in Fixed Proportion Get access Edwin B. Wilson Edwin B. Wilson Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 59, Issue 4, August 1945, Pages 635–639, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883300 Published: 01 August 1945

Journal Article On Notation for Utility Theory Get access Edwin B. Wilson Edwin B. Wilson Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 58, Issue 4, August 1944, Pages 647–650, https://doi.org/10.2307/1884749 Published: 01 August 1944

Journal Article Hicks on Perfect Substitutes Get access Edwin B. Wilson Edwin B. Wilson Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 59, Issue 1, November 1944, Pages 134–140, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883261 Published: 01 November 1944

Journal Article Pareto on Marshall's Demand Curve Get access Edwind B. Wilson Edwind B. Wilson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 58, Issue 1, December 1943, Pages 141–145, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885761 Published: 01 December 1943

I. Various meanings of "period, " 376. — II. Indices referred to "normal" are oscillatory, 378. — III. Statistical findings of cycle analysis, 380. — IV. Hidden periods indeterminable by cycle analysis, 384. — V. The periodogram; general theory, 387. — VI. Periodograms of special types of oscillation, 390. — VII. Illustration of effects of complex interference, 394. — VIII. Two rules and their limitations, 397. — IX. The periodograms for business activity, 400. — X. Details of the periodogram for 1790–1859, 400. — XI. Brief notes on the other periodograms, 405. — XII. Forecasting from the sinusoidal expressions, 407. — XIII. Schuster's statistical test for significance of periods, 409. — XIV. The number of "independent elements" in the series, 411. — XV. A crucial experiment, 413.

There are two ways of treating data which are distributed in this manner: (i) One may actually go over to the logarithms y = log x and proceed as though y were normal or nearly so; in this case m is calculated as the mean of y and ois the standard deviation of y and the usual formulas ?m = o,\Vn, uJa = o/V2n would apply. (2) Or one may fit the transform by moments on the original data, in which case the values of m and a may be somewhat different and their standard deviations will be determined by other formulas. We propose to discuss briefly some matters, connected with the logarithmic transform, which we believe have had insufficient emphasis. To make the discussion less abstract we shall give numerical illustrations obtained from the distribution of the percentage net debt (state and municipal) of the forty-eight states relative to the wealth of the state as estimated a decade